UI / UX Lead - Next-Gen Online File Transfer App
Location: US, , 
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Internet
Function: Design

Company profile:
ExaVault is merging the old and the new. FTP has been the preferred method of file transfer for decades. We've taken the best that FTP has to offer, and added a slick web based interface that allows you to share and transfer files to friends, clients and colleagues anywhere in the world. With ExaVault, you get proven transfer methods and access from thousands of desktop applications - plus the best in web management and sharing capabilities. We have customers in over 100 countries, including quite a few in the Fortune 500, and we're growing quickly.We offer a number of benefits to our fulltime employees:• A super-smart team that's been around the startup block before, and knows how to get things done.• A competitive salary with fully paid health, dental &amp; vision coverage.• 401K w/ 4% employer match. • Two weeks of vacation per year, plus a shutdown (with full pay) for the week between Christmas and New Years. • 10 Paid Holidays. • Flexible work arrangements. As long as you’re available throughout the business day, we’re flexible about how/when/where you work. We hope you'll consider joining us!

Job description:
We're a bunch of engineers building a next-generation online file transfer service, and we need a UI / UX expert. We look to companies like Apple, Square and Mint, with great technology, great design, and simple, well-thought out feature sets. (And yes, we all use Macs.) We care about doing things right, creating a quality product, and building the best user experience possible. If you care about the same things, and feel you have the chops to design a brand new app from the ground up, we want to talk.The great news is that we’re not starting from scratch. We’re well established and we already run one of the leading business file transfer / secure FTP services worldwide. We have customers in over 100 countries, including quite a few in the Fortune 500 — check out #URL_f665156549ef8248511f2a69eae3b0dac9c12afc7e93fb61dde253000ed578a8#. Now it’s time to kick it up a notch and build the tool everyone will be using in the next few years.

Requirements:
First and foremost, you should have an excellent eye for design. You should know great web UI when you see it, and be able to explain why it's great (even if you didn't create it!).You'll need to be a Photoshop ninja. You should also be fluent in Illustrator, OmniGraffle, or whatever you use to create wireframes.You should have a strong knowledge of HTML5/CSS. You should be able to cutup your own comps and build out pages.JavaScript/JQuery experience is not required, but certainly welcome.Of course, we're looking for self-starters - candidates who can jump in quickly without a lot of direction, and learn by asking the right questions. Previous experience working in a startup is a plus too, although not required. Finally, you should have a solid portfolio of web application design. We want to see that you've built great web interfaces before, not just great websites.

Benefits:
About The JobOur next generation service is on the drawing board now, and you'll be working with a small team of top-notch engineers to design, architect and build it. You’ll also have the opportunity to help with our existing service; used by hundreds of thousands of people every month. It gives you the best of both worlds … the ability to work on something that has impact on a lot of people, as well as an opportunity to build ‘ground-up’.ExaVault OffersDepending on your preferences, we’re open to either a long-term contract or full-time relationship.For our full-time employees, we offer:A competitive salary.Fully paid Health, Dental &amp; Vision coverage.401K w/ 4% employer match.Two weeks of vacation per year, plus the ‘Christmas Shutdown’ (below).Christmas Shutdown – Except for ‘keeping the lights on’ operational duties, the company shuts down (with full pay) for the week between Christmas and New Years.10 Paid Holidays. Flexible work arrangements. As long as you’re available throughout the business day, we’re flexible about how/when/where you work.A $1500/year ‘office outfitting credit’. This may be saved up to three years.Education reimbursement.Workplace FlexibilityExaVault is headquartered in Oakland, CA and Portland, OR. We’re a virtual company, and have employees throughout the West Coast. Some of us work from home, some from co-working spaces and some from coffee shops or other locations. You should have a quiet, professional, distraction free workspace (either at home or elsewhere) from which to work. You will need to provide a computer (preferably a Mac :) ) and Internet access; we will provide any software (MS Office, etc.) that you don't already have. A note from David, the CEOOnline job postings are a little bit like online dating sites. There are thousands of people out there, all with great skills. There's also thousands of jobs, all great opportunities. We need to find the one person who's the right fit for us... the right skills, the right mindset... somebody who will fit into our culture. You (hopefully) need to find the one job that's right for you: something where you're as excited to go to work on the 1000th day as you are on the 1st day.So how do we meet each other? The signal-to-noise ratio is low here. This is probably the 100th post you've looked at, and we get hundreds of candidates every time we post. I have a proposal:I've tried to share a lot about our company and our culture in this post, and on our website and elsewhere. Do a little homework on us. After that, if this job really, truly excites you, and you think you'd be great at it, tell me why in your cover letter. I don't need to know that you worked at 'ACME, Inc.' for ten years -- I can get that from your resume. And I don't need to know that you're 'professional, responsive and detail-oriented'. Everybody says that. I'm reading every submission personally, and what I really need to know is who you are, what you can do, and why you think this would be awesome.My name is David and I'm a real person. So are you. Let's start there.